Richard Bolton. The Whims of Change: The Construction of the Avant-Garde, 1980-1988. Exhibition combining ads, editorials, and text to explore the relationship between media, advertising, and avant-garde art. Curated by Philip Brookman and Robert Scott Brooks.

Lecture, Maurice Berger, asks, Can mainstream institutions incorporate art that intends to undermine the institutional hierarchies of the dominant culture? Answers yes. “While Berger missed the New York inbred circularity of his own ideological position, the power of academic language to exclude, and the hierarchical status he claimed for established artists, these problems were not lost on his astute Washington audience.”